Mexico's new president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has been famously quiet about her Jewish ancestry. Yet she will live and govern Latin America's second-largest economy from the Palacio Nacional, three blocks from Mexico's first synagogue and a neighborhood where Jewish immigrants first found refuge here.

Mexico’s first female president in more than 200 years of independence promises to protect an expanded social safety net and fight for the poor like her predecessor.

The tropical depression in the Pacific Ocean will slice across Mexico before merging with another disturbance in the Gulf.

The National Hurricane Center lowered its prediction the season’s next tropical depression or storm would form in the Gulf of Mexico, but Florida is likely to get heavy rain next week whether it develops or not.